US VIII Corps

The US VIII Corps was a US Army corps that existed from 1918 to 1919 and from 1940 to 1945. The corps took part in the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and it liberated much of northern France after fighting the German Wehrmacht in the hedgerows and taking the city of Brest. The corps assaulted Koblenz in Germany from 16 to 19 March 1945, and the corps pushed eastward into central Germany after facing heavy German resistance on the Rhine River. On 8 May 1945, the corps ended World War II on the border with Czechoslovakia.